whose name he commands the armies of Italy. The ambaffador knew how to appreciate as highly as he ought the loyalty of the French nation. He knows that, conftant to the principles of real friendship, it could not fail to remark the firmnefs which the Porte has fhown, fince the first moments of the political regeneration of France, to remain its faithful ally, and how much the influence of its fovereign on the powers of Barbary has contributed towards provifioning the French fouthern provinces, in circumstances the most critical. The French nation is too dear to its heart for it to believe, that in the moment of negotiation for peace, and when it is about to restore tranquillity to Europe, the French government would confent that the above provinces fhould remain under the power of Austria. The ambaffador cannot think but the Executive Directory will employ all means, and even the force of arms, to oblige the Emperor to relinquish them. The ties of ftrict amity and alliance which unite the Ottoman Porte to the French nation, require that the Directory fhould ufe all its efforts to that effect. This affair is of fuch importance, that the utmost precautions are neceffary to prevent the grievous confequences that might refult from the contrary. It is a common intereft. If Iftria and Dalmatia be granted to the Emperor, there can be no doubt but, become mafter of those naval forces which belonged to a peaceful republic, he will rife to the rank of a maritime power, and acquire means terrible and perfectly difaftrous to the Ottoman empire. This alliance with Ruffia and England, whofe known defigns are to drive the Sublime Porte, if poffible, from the European provinces, will acquire a ftrength to which it will not be easy to oppofe fufficient obftacles. The Black Sea will be open to the Ruffian fleets, and the Adriatic Sea to thofe of the Emperor. If he remains mafter of Dalmatia, to which will neceffarily be united the republic of Ragufa and Albania, Bofnia will be entirely uncovered, and muft yield to the firft fhock, because it is deftitute of fortreffes, and would be furrounded every where, but on the east, by the Auftrian countries. Epirus, Macedonia, and the other countries as far as the Morea, would run the fame risk. The commerce of the French would be annihilated in the Levant, fince the productions and merchandifes of Hungary, Dalinatia, and Germany, could be more eafily and fpeedily embarked and conveyed, by a fhorter page, than thofe coming from the Mediterranean. This fhort expofition will no doubt offer ample materials for the reflections of the Directory, and it will have no difficulty to convince felf, that the glory and interelts of France require them to take decifive and efficacious meafures. The French republic will fhow the fame loyalty and conflancy that it has always done towards its ally the Grand Seignior. Firm in its fentiments, it will not fuffer itself to be the caufe of injury to a ftate, which, on all occafions, and in moments of the greatest embarraffment, knew how to refift the intrigues and infinuations of its enemies. The ambaffador, fully convinced that fuch are the fentiments waith go'de the Executive Directory, expects shortly to fee the happy effects of them: it will be to him the highest fatisfaction to be able to tranfmit to the Sublime Porte allurances to that purpose. Proclamation of the Executive Directory to the French People, 5th Brumaire, 6th Year (26th October). Citizens, THE proclamation of the fourth complementary day, the fifth year, had for its object to put the French armies in a condition to march on the 15th Vendemiaire. The defenders of the country have heard the voice of the Executive Directory; on all fides they rejoined their respective armies, and the minifter of war has given in on this head the moft fatisfactory accounts. By this generous ardour, by this cagerness to maintain liberty, we have recognised the men of France. Their warlike countenance has already overthrown the obftacle which the cabinet of St. James's fo long oppofed to the conclufion of peace with the Emperor. At the fight of your attitude, Auftria returned to her real interefts, and on the 26th of last Vendemiaire the treaty, fufpended for more than fix months, was figned at San Formio, near Udina, between the general in chief Buonaparte, plenipotentiary of the French republic, and four plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, King of Hungary and Bohemia. You will learn with pleasure, that feveral millions of men are restored to liberty, and that the French nation is the benefactress of the people. Yet this is not all. To fettle the peace of the Empire, a congrefs is to be affembled. Citizens, every thing prefages that you will in a little while gather the fruit of fo many facrifices. The peace of the continent will foon be fixed upon eternal bases. It only remains for you to punith the perfidy of that cabinet of London, which ftill blinds courts in fuch a manner as to make them the flaves of her maritime tyranny, and which deceives the English themfelves, by extorting from them the means of prolonging upon the ocean the calamities of war, the effufion of human blood, the deftruction of commerce, and all the horrors that it trades in and pays, but which muft foon fall alone upon her. It is at London that the miferies of Europe are fabricated: it is there that we must put an end to them. Citizens, in Citizens, under these circumstances, you fee near at hand the period of thofe military efforts which the government expect ftill from French valour; but until the near approach of that moment in which this object may be fulfilled, take care not to lay down the arms which render you fo terrible to the enemies of your dependence; take care not to liften to the perfidious machinations of those who would render the effects of your triumphs null. They will repeat to you, that peace being made, you ought to haften to return to your homes. Yes, without doubt the Directory have juft figned for you a peace; but to enjoy its bleffings we must complete our work, enfure the execution of the treaty concluded between France and the Emperor, decide fpeedily thofe to be concluded with the Empire, crown at length your exploits by an invafion of that island, whither your ancestors carried flavery under William the Conqueror, and bring back thither, on the contrary, the genius of liberty, which muft land there at the fame time with the French. Citizens, be affured that the government defire to accelerate the happy moment, in which, in concert with the legislative body, they fhall be able to reduce the armies to a peace establishment, reward the heroes who compofe them; and, after having confecrated their valour by monuments and fêtes worthy of their triumphs, circulate throughout all their cantons the true republican fpirit, with which the armies have been conftantly animated, by fending back to their homes all fuch of the defenders as fhall have a right to return to them. But you fhall judge of it yourselves-the hour is not comeyet a few moments more, and the French republic, triumphant, confirmed, and every where recognised, fhall enjoy the repofe which fhe will procure for the world, Decree of the Executive Directory, 5th Brumaire (26th October), the 6th Year. HE Executive Directory refolves as follows: THE 1. There fhall be affembled, without delay, upon the coafts of the ocean, an army, which fhall take the name of the Army of England. 2. Citizen general Buonaparte is appointed general in chief of that army. It fhall be provifionally commanded by citizen Defaix, general of divifion, who, for that purpose, fhall immediately repair to Rennes. 3. The minifter of war is charged with the execution of the prefent arret, which shall be inferted in the Bulletin des Lois. (Signed) REVEILLIERE LEPAUX, Prefident. LAGARDE, Sec. Gen. Subftance Subftance of the Speech of Citizen Monge on prefenting the Treaty of Peace between the Emperor and the French Republic to the Direflory, on the 10th Brumaire (31st October). YOU have not yet arrived, Citizens Directors, at the conclufion of your labours. A new career, perhaps ftill more glorious, opens to your view. The liberty of Greece was unable to refift the treafures of the king of a petty nation, fcarcely emerged from her bafenefs. The means of corruption poffeffed by the tyrants of India are much more extenfive than those of the King of Macedon. For a much longer period has the government of England fuccefsfully employed that inftrument which has fo much difgraced it; and whatever be our virtues, it would be prefumptuous to believe that we are lefs corruptible than the citizens of Sparta or Athens. The English government and the French republic cannot therefore exift together! You have spoken, and already our terrible brigades begin to brandith their victorious fwords, and Scipio is at their head. Did I poffefs in my country that authority with which his fignal patriotic fervices and brilliant virtues invefted Cato at Rome, I fhould, notwithstanding, fay to the firft magiftrates of the re-. public Destroy a government which has corrupted the morals of the whole world; but preferve a people to whom Europe is indebted for a great part of its knowledge. "Do not opprefs a people who have given Newton to the world-a people refpectable for their perhaps unparalleled patriotifm, and worthy of a better government. Elevate the government to the dignity of the people: perfect that liberty which they idolize, and restore them to the free exercife of their natural virtues. Let the English nation continue to exift with gloryLet it be the rival of the French nation; but let the emulation of the two countries be to contribute to the progrefs of knowledge, and to the perfection of the human mind; and may there be no other rival hip between us than for the happiness of the world!" Speech of Citizen Reveilliere Lepaux, Prefident of the Directory, to Citizens Berthier and Monge. of GLORIOUS for the republic are thofe days whereon the cry victory inceffantly refounds in this hall. Delightful is that moment when the voice of peace is heard, particularly when it is fucceeded by confequences equally beneficial and brilliant. What a concatenation of marvellous events have occurred fince the period when reafon first called us to declare our independence, until the monent when peace is about to fix its feal to the revolution! Powerful Powerful genius of liberty, it is thou alone who can't bring to light fuch unheard-of events, fuch heroic deeds, and fuch extraordinary heroes. Thou alone canft create, as by enchantment, fo many philofophers, orators, legiflators, ftatefmen, warriors, men of univerfal gemus, triumphant armies, an army of Italy, a Buonaparte!Happy France, forget paft woes which no longer exift, in order to occupy thyfelf with the future prospect of happiness and glory that awaits thee! enjoy the fruit of thy conquefts. Thou mayeft contemplate them with a legitimate pride. The effect of those conquefts will not only be that of preferving liberty to all who are free, but will alfo call vaft regions and numerous populations to liberty; and that liberty will not be fullied by the bloody hand of faction. Its birth will be affured by the reign of the laws, by wife and vigorous inftitutions. In the mean time, France, before thou abandoneft thyfelf to repofe, turn thy attention towards England. There exifts there certainly a nation famed for its generous difpofition, but its government is odious. After ufurping the empire of the feas, it has covered the globe with its crimes. In Afia the thirst of gold has rendered its power more terrible than death itself. In Europe and America it has every where fpread venality. It has diffeminated corruption in torrents, and it overawes, with a haughtiness the most infulting, thofe governments which it has corrupted and degraded. In fine, it has been the artifan of our civil difcords. Unable to destroy our liberty by the coalition, of which it was the author, it has contaminated it by horrible profcriptions. It has given birth to La Vendée. It is against that fpot, republican fol diers, that your laft blows are to be directed. But on this happy day let us think only of the repose which France is about to give to the continent of Europe. Let us folely abandon ourfelves to fentiments of joy and gratitude. Brave defenders of your country; and ye youthful heroes, who burn to fhow yourselves equally worthy in martial deeds, politics, and philofophy, enjoy with delight the gratitude of the nation. I am tenacious of leffening the number and greatnefs of your fervices, by feeming to retrace them. It is hiftory to whom this glorious task belongs. It is to the graver, the painter, the fculptor, the architect, to raife monuments confecrated to memory. To poetry it belongs to celebrate them by immortal fongs. In fine, these are the people to whom you have given liberty-the republics you have founded; the mafterpieces of art with which you have ornamented your country; the animals, the ufeful plants, the inventions of every defcription with which you have enriched it; the precious collections of the productions of nature and art which furnish abundant fubjects of meditation to our philofophers, and freth models to our artifts; thefe are, in a word, all the fruits of your victories, which will tranfmit to pofterity the remembrance of what you |